Natural Elopement Wedding flowers for an intimate Devon wedding

 

 

Natural elopement wedding flowers

Natural elopement wedding flowers for an intimate Devon Wedding, this was a dream to be involved with; aimed to create a wild and romantic feeling. It was a great time to be creative, and work with other local wedding industry suppliers in the South West too. This one was quite an adventure too! Set on Burgh Island; just imagine the fun of getting everything and everybody to a tiny Island just off the South Devon coast… it’s a very special location, and we’re lucky to be so nearby.

Flowers grown on our Devon Flower Farm

The brief for this Devon wedding was boho elopement, and the flowers I choose (all grown here on our Devon flower farm of course), needed to be airy yet romantic- natural wedding flowers with a hint of wildnes. The main focal point was a meadow circle, for a ceremony on the cliff top. I wanted it to look like it was growing there, in an undone and wild way- fulfilling the natural wedding flower look that was wanted. It needed to be a focal point, and unashamedly beautiful.

 

Summer Seasonal Flowers

Seasonal flowers included; the always useful Ammi (looks like cow parsley but has a much better vase life, and slightly bigger flowers, I try and grow it all season long). Roses- anyone who know me knows I have a slight obsession here in our flower garden- growing over 200 bushes, but oh my goodness. They like our soil and they are completely breath stopping- beautiful, scented, the colours, I can’t even begin… they get used in our Devon wedding flowers alot.

Foxgloves- one of my stalwart bi-annuals. THE COLOURS- blush and peach, perfect, romantic wedding flowers. Their structure, the way bees adore them and vibrate when inside each bell. I find them fascinating, and picked everything we had to use in this shoot.

There was also masses and masses of eucalyptus- we grow ALOT on our Devon flower farm. It has a wonderful scent, and a gorgeous muted grey/ green, that mixes so well with flowers. As we grow our own, we’re able to pick massive sweeping branches too- perfect to create wild wedding flower installations.

Other shout outs go to blousy peonies (sigh, such a short flowering season but their fleeting nature makes them all the more special and sought after). Again they like our soil, and we grow lots of varieties. And this we also used a lot of flowering cress- it has an amazing texture and vase life, and just elevated everything else. Not showy but very much essential to creating the natural wedding flower -y- ness that we wanted.

Because we grow the majority of flowers we use in our wedding floristry ourselves, in our flower garden, (and if not sourcing from other local flower farms too), we have the opportunity of the unusual! We can pick whatever’s looking best at that time, and sometimes it’s surprising what flowers together at the same time… In this case it was an anemone that had decided to flower extraordinarily late, but was just so, so beautiful. I made sure it got pride of place in the wild and natural bridal bouquet. This bridal bouquet was mainly made up with roses (I did say how much I liked them right?..) and the scent was amazing.

Bridal bouquet made up of masses of scented roses.

 

 

It was a great day, with a great team, creating natural wedding flowers in a truly stunning location. If you’d like to get in touch about about natural wedding flowers- find our wedding enquiry form here. And for more inspiration about sesonal flowers- browse our flower galleries here (divided into seasons).

Team Credits:

Team
Cake: Edible Essence
Flowers: Holly-Bee Flowers
Hair Stylist: Brigitte Fisher – Wedding Hair Devon
Make Up Artist: Emma Roberts – Make-up artist
Model: Matt @ Mosaic Model & Creative Production Management
Model: Lucy Cole
Photographer / Creative Director: Emma Barrow Photography
Photographer’s Assistant: Doble Photography
Props: Keeping It Vintage Wedding & Event Hire
Stationery: Knots & Kisses Wedding Stationery & Styling
Stylist: Knots & Kisses Wedding Stationery & Styling
Videographer: Daniel Grindrod
Venue:Burgh Island Hotel
Wardrobe: AW Bridal / The Wedding Company, Plympton / The Grooms Room